It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.

Few people would not be the worse for complete sincerity.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.